Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1887-07-15
VUIGIHAl AND BORHHtO'

lctlcI W buo OhCf
Georges county defning 10 res
plte Holmes Puryes VINO IS SEN
fenced to be hange IN tnat county
on July 10 fer tn murder OF MS
wife.
A freight try on tue OneSa'
peake and GO .Eallroad was bad
y''wrecKed Friday night at Mitch
ellis Crossing. Conductor Buster
was seriously injured. The damage
is heavy. All trains were delayed
s or 10 hours.
The first indictment and cOnvic-
ton for violation of the prohibition
law at Jackson, Miss, occurred
Monday. J. 9. Brown, formerly a
saloon.keeper, pleaded guilty to
three charges. His fines and in
prisonment for all three under the
law amounted TO 5000 and ten
months Imprisonment.
A new law against pistols IN
Texas forbids any person to have a
weapon even within reaching dis
lance. The friends of the measure
say that if the law is faithfully en-
forced Texas will be new state
within FIVE years. On the other
hand, it would seem that faithful
enforcement of the act is likely to
land every other Texan in jail IN
side Of five weeks.
wbatsis the shortest sentence on
record was pronounced not long
ago by an English Justice. The
convicted prisoner had married
a second husband while her first
was Living, undivOrced, but the
circumstances we're such that the
Judge SAID that he could not con-
scientiously sentence her to more
than FIVE minutes Imprisonment,
and that was the sentence.
"Blinky" Morgan, the Western
robber and murderer, was asked
the other dag how he came to enter
upon a life of crime. al was born
in Philadelphia" he said. "When
l was very young l commenced
reading dime novels, and read them
until my mind was thoroughly
poisoned. thought Of all sorts OF
wild schemes, and when | was six
leen | ran away from home and
went to Texas
u. NJ. Sheats, of WatkinsYille,
Ga, saw in the woods near his
house a large pine tree in which
bees had made their nest. He said
nothing about It, and soon moved
out OF the neigborhood. After ten
years he moved back, and one OF
the irst things he did was 10 'ex-
anime the bee tree. The bees were
still there, and he called in some Of
MS neighbors for help, and cut the
tree down, when it was found to
contain a hollow thirty.eight feet
long and eight inches in diameter,
chock full of honey from one end to
the other.
The people are not supposed to
be aware of the fact that there was
a minister in Woodstock week be-
fore last. If such had been under
stood Senator Riddlebergers aman-
uensis would not have been called
upon TO reply to the letters and
postal cards from the beloved fem
mines about the bulbs and flower
seeds. Senator Riddleberger has
not had a bulb or flower seed for
free distribution since March last.
It only required a good fellow who
learned by association with Sen.
Riddleberger, as a politician, to
put up that job on him. His name
is what will avail only in n. c.
The Gazette says: The Alexan-
dria and Washington railroad was
sold at public auction at noon Sat
urday in front OF the custom house
bulldog, to Col. f. i. Smith, Tor
100000. The sale was made by
NJ. +. Peasants, master and COM
missioner, appointed to make the
sale by virtue and under authority
of a decree rendered by the Circuit
Court OF the United States for the
Eastern district of Virginia, on the
9TH day of April, 1884, in the chan
Gerry cause of Alexander Hay, VS..
the Alexandria and Washington
railroad company and others, there
in depending.
The noted moOnshiners Of Taze-
well county. Va, and Mercer and
Pocahontas counties, w. Va, have
been caught. They built a house
for selling liquor on the borders OF
the two States, one end of which
was in this State and the other in
West Virginia. When Virginisn
asked for a drink be was shown to
the West Virginia room and got
bis liquor when West Nirglnian
desired to slake bis thirst that was
accomplished in the Virginia end
Of the line. This was carried on
for a long while, but % Friday the
officers of the law caught three VIC
lators--Laugblin, Reed, and PhOnts
tore their house down, and con
fiscated their liquors. The men
are now awaiting trial.
In Baltimore on Saturday the
grand jury presented and indicted
W. ]. KiltOn for feloniOus assault
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